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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Metab Res Rev. 2014 Feb;30(2):96–102. doi: 10.1002/dmrr.2486

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The effect of glucocorticoids on glycerneogenesis in adipose tissue and liver. Phosphoenylpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) is reciprocally upregulated in liver and downregulated in adipose by glucocorticoids. This results in a buildup of free fatty acids in the blood, which in turn result in insulin resistance and increase gluconeogenesis